Sermons preached

I. As to the purchase and impetration of Grace by the Death and Incarnation of the Son of God.

1. There is Wisdom in this, that in our fallen estate we should not come immediately to God without a Mediator and Reconciler. God is out of the reach of our commerce, being at such a distance from us, and variance with us. The wise Men of the World pitched on such a way, 1 Cor. 8. 5, 6. The Heathens saw so far that it was an uncomfortable thing to make their immediate approaches to their Supreme God. But here is the true God, and the true Mediator. But to us there is but one God the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. One God the Father, from whom we derive all Graces, to whom we direct all Services: one Lord Jesus Christ, who conveyeth the Graces and Benefits to us, and returneth our Prayers and Acts of Obedience to God. This is a mighty relief to our thoughts: for the apprehensions of the pure God-head do amaze us and confound us, when we come to consider of that glorious and infinite Being. As heretofore, before they found out the use of the Compass, they only coasted, ⟨p. 145⟩as loth to venture themselves in the great Ocean: So by Christ we come to God. He is the true Jacob's Ladder, Joh. 11. 50.

1. There is Wisdom in this, that in our faln estate we should not come immediately to God without a Mediator and Reconciler. God is out of the reach of our commerse, being at such a distance from us, and variance with us. The wise Men of the World pitched on such a way, 1 Cor. 8. 5, 6. The Heathens saw so far that it was an uncomfortable thing to make their immediate approaches to their Supream God. But here is the true God, and the true Mediator. But to us there is but one God the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Iesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. One God the Father, from whom we derive all Graces, to whom we direct all Services: one Lord Iesus Christ, who conveyeth the Graces and Benefits to us, and returneth our Prayers and Acts of Obedience to God. This is a mighty relief to our thoughts: for the apprehensions of the pure God-head do amaze us and confound us, when we come to consider of that glorious and infinite Being. As heretofore, before they found out the use of the Compass, they only coasted,